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Following last week's dissonance-destroying victory for Donald Trump, San Francisco teachers are being offered a 'Donald Trump lesson plan' to "help students understand the election," but, as NBCBayArea reports, opponents counter that it is leftist propaganda meant to scare children about the incoming president. :: Fakhra Shah, a teacher at Mission High School, drafted the plan with the goal of empowering students, she said. “This is anti-hate,” Shah said. “This is not just anti-Trump.” On the heels of Trump’s stunning Nov. 8 victory, Shah wrote a letter to staff, in which she said, “A racist and sexist man has become...

A Minnesota woman filed a lawsuit against her 17-year-old child, the county and a handful of other agencies after she claimed that her child was receiving transgender services without her permission. ADVERTISEMENT Anmarie Calgaro says St. Louis County, St. Louis County Public Health and Human Services Director, Fairview Health Services, Park Nicollet Health Services, St. Louis County School District, Principal of the Cherry School treated her child as an emancipated minor, according to the lawsuit. "Why wasn't I even notified? I feel that my constitutional rights have been stripped from me," Calgaro told reporters, according to KMSP-TV. "If this had...

Students in Washington DC and other cities around the nation are again leaving school to protest the results of the US presidential election.In Rockville, Maryland, just outside of the nation’s capitol, students at Richard Montgomery High School left classes around 10:00 AM to march to the courthouse to rally. The students carried printed signs reading “stronger together.”Approximately 100 students walked out to protest, chanting “love trumps hate,” but the message seems to have been lost as a 15-year-old teenager was attacked and injured by student protesters shortly after the march began. The victim was receiving assistance from police at around 10:15 AM, and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.“They jumped him and beat him...

College and high school students from across South Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties will be taking part in a mass walkout Wednesday morning in opposition to what they say is a threat from President-elect Donald Trump toward undocumented students and their families.

Action 1: If you live near Portland, Oregon, please join the 2nd protest in front of Sacramento Elementary school at: 11:30am on Wednesday, November 16. Address: 11400 NE Sacramento St, Portland, OR 97220 Action 2: If you do not live near Portland, please pray and if possible call or email the school to register your disapproval. (please be polite but firm in all communication) School Website contact page: Sacramento Elementary School Interim Principal, Kathleen Copeland: Kathleen_copland@parkrose.k12.or.us School Secretary, Charlena Sirokman: charlena_sirokman@parkrose.k12.or.us Phone: (503) 408-2800 Action 3: Help us fly America Needs Fatima volunteers to help organize a new protest in...

A high school girl in California beaten for supporting Trump. This makes me glad he won!!

"As you listen to the news about the student protests over President-Elect Trump's approach to illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large Southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools. Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I...

Educators across the city are taking action to calm classroom fears and they're ready to fight student bullying if it materializes in the wake of Donald Trump's victory. So far, Education Department officials say they have no knowledge of any incidents of harassment in the public schools that’s related to the presidential election. City teachers union president Michael Mulgrew issued a letter to members Thursday urging them to safeguard the interests of the 1.1 million students, as reports rolled in of conflict between kids on campuses around the country. The week of the election, a handful of incidents of harassment...

Some of the victims of Mike Obozo's school lunch program have to have voted in last Tuesday's election. There are many reasons for the result, including concern the peace and safety of the world, but I'm wondering if school lunches may have played any sort of a part in it... I think the original idea was to starve all the bigger kids and athletes but it seemed to filter down to everybody. Search google on #thanksMichelleObama...

MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) — A Mountain View high school teacher was kicked out of his classroom and is now getting threats for comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Hitler. Frank Novarro doesn’t know when he’ll be in front of the classroom again after a history lesson he believes was misunderstood. While some are accusing the history teacher of calling Trump a racist by drawing the comparison, he says that didn’t happen. “Because I think that it is historically factual,” says Novarro.

Racially driven animus over the presidential election jarred the usually serene Woodside High School campus with video spreading of a violent attack on a student who voiced support for Donald Trump.

A day after a 13-year-old boy brought a handgun to a Queens middle school, random metal detector searches at the same school uncovered even more weapons, officials said. Three students at Middle School 202 in Ozone Park tried to sneak in two knives and two box-cutters Thursday, according to school safety agent union officials. One 12-year-old boy came to school with a four-and-a-half inch, stashed in his backpack, police sources said. School safety agents prepared a “juvenile report” against the boy, then released him to his mother, sources said. Queens high school student threatened 17-year-old with knife School officials also...

Before she left for work on Wednesday, Riley Elementary School teacher Christi Paulson said she had a bad feeling about how her students would be responding to President-elect Donald Trump. The school is located on Salt Lake City's diverse west side and home to many languages, ethnicities and countries of origin. "They're really worried about the [border] wall," Paulson said, referring to one of Trump's signature campaign pledges, "and about friends and parents and people getting sent away." In her second-grade classroom, Paulson has two cups on a counter that feature a smiling, winking face with big thumbs up and...

Holding signs reading “Not our president” and defiantly chanting Wednesday morning, thousands of students spilled out of East Bay high schools, taking to the streets in anti-Donald Trump protests — the latest round of action across the Bay Area following the New York billionaire’s election to the highest office in the land.

Scores of students at several Des Moines Public Schools walked out of class in protest of election results Wednesday morning. Advertisement Many could be seen carrying signs at East and Roosevelt high schools, protesting the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. At Valley High School in West Des Moines, Vice Principal David Maxwell said Wednesday that students were given about 15 minutes to protest before they had to return to class. Maxwell said some did return, some didn’t. There were no reports of violence at any of the protests. Des Moines Public Schools released the following statement: Students at...

This cliché usually carries a double message: something is easy to do but shameful. No decent person would do it. You know, like the emotional and intellectual abuses all too common in our public schools. (To designate the full range of counterproductive practices, educator Siegfried Engelmann coined the term "academic child abuse.") The authorities have control over a huge number of defenseless children. Instead of preparing them for smart, responsible decisions, our public schools tend to keep them in an ignorant daze. It's all so easy. Kids don't know enough to complain. Parents don't understand what's going on. Local media...

More than 1 in 4 of the nation’s full-time teachers are considered chronically absent from school, according to federal data, missing the equivalent of more than two weeks of classes each academic year in what some districts say has become an educational crisis. The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights estimated this summer that 27 percent of the nation’s teachers are out of school for more than 10 days of regular classes — some missing far more than 10 days — based on self-reported numbers from the nation’s school districts. But some school systems, especially those in poor, rural...

NEWARK, OH (WCMH) — Denver Ham gripped his daughter Riley’s shoulders tight in a protective hug outside Legend Elementary School in Newark. “I couldn’t lose another child,” Ham said, choking back tears. Riley, 7, told her family she had a “bad day” at school on Wednesday. The second-grader said a substitute teacher who called himself “Mr. S.” threatened her class. “He doesn’t deal with bad behavior and said if we act up or do anything that he didn’t tell us, that he would cut our heads off and bury us,” Riley said. Denver Ham, who said his oldest daughter died...

What you are about to read about will be happening more and more around the country. Are you ready to fight it? Parents from Missouri MassResistance stood up to pro-LGBT activists and continued to confront the school board in their effort to stop a horrific LGBT-sexuality curriculum being imposed on their school system in suburban St. Louis. As we reported earlier the new district-wide “comprehensive sexuality” curriculum voted in by the Parkway District School Board in March aims to normalize homosexuality and cross-dressing beginning in the lower elementary school grades. It includes lessons about oral and anal sex for middle...

In 1955 Rudolf Flesch famously explained “Why Johnny Can't Read.” The problem was obvious. Schools made children memorize words as abstract graphic designs (i.e., sight-words), nothing else. In fact, English words contain a lot of essential info about how words should be pronounced and why they’re spelled the way they are. The Education Establishment said, “Oh fiddlesticks, forget all that old-fashioned stuff. Memorize the word-designs as if they are currency symbols or electrical symbols.” That, of course, is very hard work. But our Education Establishment has pushed this nonsense for 80 years. As a result, we have 50 million functional...